Phonetic Families & Components
Sound Roots & Semantic Radicals Explorer
Decode Chinese characters by their shared sound roots and see how semantic radicals split their meanings across tones.
Popular Roots:
薄
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4
薄 (bó)
thin, slight, meager, or to despise
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (薄)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 2bó
Family Characters (2)
Root: 薄薄
bó
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
thin, slight, meager, or to despise